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[DrFunk]

Phonearena has a video review (already!): http://youtu.be/Owx1Z-9jRrs

GSMArena has a good preview: http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_droid_dna-review-849.php

Here's why it doesn't have a SD Card slot (via HTC):

HTC USA U.S. customers have easy access to cloud storage solutions through Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network and ample access to Wi-Fi. This fact was balanced with the desire to make DROID DNA as slender as possible with an incredible 5-inch HD screen.

http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...1-straight-htc-usa-why-no-sd-slot-exists.html

And apparently, battery life is comparable to the GS3 (thought the screen hasn't been on much, either):

http://www.phonearena.com/news/More...tery-life-microSD-slot-camera-samples_id36661

 

[markot]

Surprising battery life.

 

[tino]

I've owned a smartphone while you were still using a walkie talkie.

1 Get the fuck out of here. Whats your first smart phone?

2 people like you need to be sent to re-education camp.

3 You want to bet Galaxy S4 won't have a sd card? Sure I would bet with you. How about permaban of our GAF accounts?

 

[markot]

Lots of countries also don't have the infrastructure or mobile plans to make the cloud an alternative to storage on the phone.

 

[zomgbbqftw]

Phonearena has a video review (already!): http://youtu.be/Owx1Z-9jRrs

GSMArena has a good preview: http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_droid_dna-review-849.php

Here's why it doesn't have a SD Card slot (via HTC):



http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...1-straight-htc-usa-why-no-sd-slot-exists.html

And apparently, battery life is comparable to the GS3 (thought the screen hasn't been on much, either):
http://i.imgur.com/Al1Gd.jpg[/ IMG]

[url]http://www.phonearena.com/news/More-Droid-DNA-details-trickle-down-from-HTC-and-others-battery-life-microSD-slot-camera-samples_id36661[ /url][/QUOTE]

This person doesn't seem to use the phone very much, active screen time is maybe 2 hours, plus there was no signal for most of the test, as soon as there is and the LTE modem is activated look at the battery drain. Shit test from a shit website.

 

[DrFunk]

...like I said, the screen wasn't on very much

 

[The Faceless Master]

1 Get the fuck out of here. Whats your first smart phone?

2 people like you need to be sent to re-education camp.

3 You want to bet Galaxy S4 won't have a sd card? Sure I would bet with you. How about permaban of our GAF accounts?

 

[mackattk]

Lots of countries also don't have the infrastructure or mobile plans to make the cloud an alternative to storage on the phone.

This is probably for a different thread, but the real problem I have with the whole cloud storage thing is that we finally get to a point where we can effectively use cloud storage through 4g/LTE, and just as we get to that point, we start getting limited to bandwidth. Whats the point of cloud storage if you can't use it due to limits?

 

[DrFunk]

review: http://www.phonearena.com/reviews/HTC-DROID-DNA-Review_id3191

 

[ukas]

Cnet's review. Battery haters can shut up now.

http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/htc-droid-dna-verizon/4505-6452_7-35536642.html

Possibly unlockable bootloader as well.

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/11/14/htc-droid-dna-bootloader-can-be-unlocked-through-htcdev/

 

[Vyse The Legend]

Cnet's review. Battery haters can shut up now.

http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/htc-droid-dna-verizon/4505-6452_7-35536642.html

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Read the review above yours:

We were desperately hoping for the best with battery life, but alas, it puts out nothing more than average results. Charging its 2,020 mAh battery, we’re able to fly by the 10 hour mark before it’s completely depleted – thus hitting the tally we’re normally accustomed to seeing with most Verizon 4G LTE smartphones.

 

[ukas]

Read the review above yours:

I'm talking about the idiots saying it would have the same battery life as the Thunderbolt etc. If it lasts close to the same amount of time as the GS3, as per the Cnet review, then I'm happy. I currently have the GS3 and can make it more than a day when I need to.

 

[Bboy AJ]

1 Get the fuck out of here. Whats your first smart phone?

2 people like you need to be sent to re-education camp.

3 You want to bet Galaxy S4 won't have a sd card? Sure I would bet with you. How about permaban of our GAF accounts?

1. I owned Matias' most important work: a b&w Sidekick. I had an xda account before you even had a GAF account.

2 and 3. Eat a dick.

 

[tino]

1. I owned Matias' most important work: a b&w Sidekick. I had an xda account before you even had a GAF account.

Sidekick is a smart phone now? How?

2 and 3. Eat a dick.

O you are back paddling.

 

[The Faceless Master]

1. I owned Matias' most important work: a b&w Sidekick. I had an xda account before you even had a GAF account.

2 and 3. Eat a dick.

post backfire.

 

[Radec]

lol

This thread is turning into a gold mine.

 

[The Faceless Master]

Read the review above yours:

average results. that's pretty much what the cnet review says.

people were expecting BAD battery life.

 

[Bboy AJ]

Sidekick is a smart phone now? How?



O you are back paddling.

Then what is it? Web browsing, an app store, IM client, multitasking. It's just so before your time you have no idea what's what.

Any bet on here is not worth my GAF account. I only have one. I'll put up the price of an SD card, though, heh.

 

[The Faceless Master]

Sidekick is a smart phone now? How?

O you are back paddling.

man, i still remember when the Sidekick was THE SHIT

and people were loving that PTT on Nextel

Then what is it? Web browsing, an app store, IM client, multitasking. It's just so before your time you have no idea what's what.

Any bet on here is not worth my GAF account. I only have one. I'll put up the price of an SD card, though, heh.

128GB SDXC?

those should be out and natively supported in the GS4

 

[tino]

Then what is it? Web browsing, an app store, IM client, multitasking. It's just so before your time you have no idea what's what.

Any bet on here is not worth my GAF account. I only have one. I'll put up the price of an SD card, though, heh.

My definition of a smartphone is if you can pass the "make call the do PGS navigation at the same time" test.

So to me, Symbrian kind of became a smartphone OS when Tomtom and Garmin became avilable for it, even though most Symbrian user never used their Nokia phone as smartphones.

Sidekick OS to me is basically a thin client OS.

 

[justjohn]

Will wait and see Samsung's response with the s4 before deciding

 

[Bboy AJ]

My definition of a smartphone is if you can pass the "make call the do PGS navigation at the same time" test.

So to me, Symbrian kind of became a smartphone OS when Tomtom and Garmin became avilable for it, even though most Symbrian user never used their Nokia phone as smartphones.

Sidekick OS to me is basically a thin client OS.

So basically a nav that makes phone calls is a smart phone? I'll take multitasking of web browsing, AIM, and an App Store with installable apps any day of the week. Man, that phone was so awesome for its time. Truly Duarte's most important work.

 

[justjohn]

I wonder if apple will now realise people prefer bigger screens and join in instead of their tiny screens

 

[tino]

So basically a nav that makes phone calls is a smart phone? I'll take multitasking of web browsing, AIM, and an App Store with installable apps any day of the week. Man, that phone was so awesome for its time. Truly Duarte's most important work.

You are the only one who call Sidekick OS a smartphone OS. Show me where a popular press call it a smartphone.

I have pretty of bad words to say about Duarte's design aesthetic but lets not go there.

 

[Bboy AJ]

You are the only one who call Sidekick OS a smartphone OS. Show me where a popular press call it a smartphone.

I don't need to. I know what it did and that makes it a smartphone to me.

You're being disingenuous with your nav phone criteria. I also don't care what you think since plenty of phones were popular at XDA before this nav phone nonsense. Not that you were around to know.

 

[tino]

I don't need to. I know what it did and that makes it a smartphone to me.

You're being disingenuous with your nav phone criteria. I also don't care what you think since plenty of phones were popular at XDA before this nav phone nonsense. Not that you were around to know.

My definition of smartphone OS is 99% close to the conventional definition of smartphone OS.

 

[Bboy AJ]

You know, the DNA's screen makes me a bit hesitant in getting my N4. I try to keep my phones for a bit but with these 1080 screen phones on the horizon, I wouldn't be surprised if the N5 had one. Thus, I'll no doubt succumb and upgrade. But I suppose that's fine. GN and N4 were 720 screens. Two years is long enough for more progress.

My definition of smartphone OS is 99% close to the conventional definition of smartphone OS.

Okay. Fair enough. I don't want to continue our bickering.

 

[ukas]

Now custom recovery and root.

http://www.droid-life.com/2012/11/15/htc-droid-dna-receives-root-and-custom-recovery-before-launch/

 

[NobleXenon]

Yikes at that battery size. Does the new LCD3 screen or whatever it's called make up for poor battery size?

 

[virtuoso88]

You know, the DNA's screen makes me a bit hesitant in getting my N4. I try to keep my phones for a bit but with these 1080 screen phones on the horizon, I wouldn't be surprised if the N5 had one. Thus, I'll no doubt succumb and upgrade. But I suppose that's fine. GN and N4 were 720 screens. Two years is long enough for more progress.



Okay. Fair enough. I don't want to continue our bickering.

At 299 you could sell the N4 and get teh N5 without a big loss. Besides why not wait til the N30! It'll be implanted in your head by then

 

[Bboy AJ]

At 299 you could sell the N4 and get teh N5 without a big loss. Besides why not wait til the N30! It'll be implanted in your head by then

If the N5 is $300? That will affect the used market pretty well.

I get the N30 comment. It's true. I don't wait to buy stuff. I just like to time my purchases so they'll last for awhile. My N1 was the greatest phone. I enjoyed using it until the day it died on me.

 

[virtuoso88]

If the N5 is $300? That will affect the used market pretty well.

I get the N30 comment. It's true. I don't wait to buy stuff. I just like to time my purchases so they'll last for awhile. My N1 was the greatest phone. I enjoyed using it until the day it died on me.

That's the way to do it. Wish I could but I'm always upgrading and selling my old ones. Upgrades are usually 1-2 hundred loss max that's how I justify it but it adds up. Sure is fun though

 

[-COOLIO-]

I'm not sure these 1080 phones are gunna catch on. So many performance sacrifices for something so seemingly negligible.

 

[Takamura-San]

HTC is still pushing the sense interface?

I thought they would have evolved by now.

 

[mackattk]

You know, the DNA's screen makes me a bit hesitant in getting my N4. I try to keep my phones for a bit but with these 1080 screen phones on the horizon, I wouldn't be surprised if the N5 had one. Thus, I'll no doubt succumb and upgrade. But I suppose that's fine. GN and N4 were 720 screens. Two years is long enough for more progress.

Man, honestly. if you keep waiting for the next "best" thing, it will never come. I know how it is though, two years is a LONG time in terms of a smartphone, with many product lines getting refreshes every 6 months or so.

 

[DrFunk]

International version leaked:

When the HTC Droid DNA leaked out into the wild, we'd learned that the DLX codename was really shorthand for "Deluxe," a title that was also attached to non-Verizon models like the J Butterfly. If @evleaks is correct, that's because HTC fully intends to have a reference version of the Deluxe on the market: the frequent rumor source has posted what looks to be a press image of the international model. There isn't much of a surprise if you've seen the Droid DNA, as it preserves all the red trim while replacing the Verizon logo with HTC's own. Most other details are left out -- there's no release date or hardware differences to pick out -- but the image may be a clue that those of us who live outside of Japan and the US could get own 1080p phone before too long.

told y'all

 

[The Faceless Master]

HTC is still pushing the sense interface?

I thought they would have evolved by now.

ICONIC HTC CLOCK

 

[Souless_PJ]

ICONIC HTC CLOCK

Yo I heard you like clocks so we put a clock in your clock for your clock.

 

[fatigues_gasolini]

TechnoBuffalo Review

http://www.technobuffalo.com/compan...iew-the-android-phone-youve-been-waiting-for/

 

[BrokenEchelon]

God daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.

 

[shinshoryuken]

I envy you Verizon people...

 

[Cipherr]

TechnoBuffalo Review

http://www.technobuffalo.com/compan...iew-the-android-phone-youve-been-waiting-for/

9/10 and it lasted the whole day with 30% left at the end. LCD3 must be efficient as all hell to pull that off. Battery life sounds just fine.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I envy you Verizon people...

Join us! We can suffer together under Verizon's vast corporate heel! At least they are giving us nationwide 4G LTE over their entire network footprint by mid-2013!

 

[Rengoku]

The Japanese version of this phone, the HTC J Butterfly has a micro-sd slot.... Here's hoping the international version HTC Deluxe gets it too! *crosses fingers*

 

[tino]

I envy you Verizon people...

Well you can use it as a 2g phone on Tmobile.

 

[The Albatross]

Phone looks slick.
But with sense and the verizon shit ware and the inability to update or remove apps, it will probably be filled with jank. Will never buy another android phone that isn't a nexus, unfortunately.

 

[TheTowel]

Thing is htc makes great hardware. If you hate sense, wait for a price drop and cm to drop and you're good.

 

[fatigues_gasolini]

Thing is htc makes great hardware. If you hate sense, wait for a price drop and cm to drop and you're good.

Thats what I am looking forward to. Stock 4.2 on this thing will be beastly

 

[shinshoryuken]

Join us! We can suffer together under Verizon's vast corporate heel! At least they are giving us nationwide 4G LTE over their entire network footprint by mid-2013!

Well you can use it as a 2g phone on Tmobile.

I still have at&t unlimited plan, don't want to lose that...

While you can use an at&t sim..no lte is a deal breaker..

 

[basic_element]

Phone looks slick.
But with sense and the verizon shit ware and the inability to update or remove apps, it will probably be filled with jank. Will never buy another android phone that isn't a nexus, unfortunately.

They already obtained root and maybe even unlocked bootloader, so you will be able remove sense and bloatware.

Battery life looks decent but not good enough for me. For a phone this big, I'm puzzled that they couldn't fit a bigger battery when Motorola can fit a 3300 mAh battery in a smaller package.